[R] How to measure correlations in terms of distance and draw them on a 2-dimmentional plot?

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 18, 2010, at 5:11 PM, weijian21cn wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Suppose I have n variables, X1, X2, ..., Xn and want to visualize the
> pairwise correlations on a 2-dimmensional plot. In particular, I  
> plan to
> mark down n dots on a piece of paper and  dot i represents Xi, in a  
> way such
> that the highly correlated variables are placed closer; that is,  
> shorter the
> distance between two dots the higher the correlation are between two
> corresponding variables. Do you guys know any R packages can draw such
> plots?

I didn't quite follow wwhat your strategy was but have you looked at  
lattice::splom?
>
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> Weijian
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David Winsemius, MD
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